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Continued Unrest in Southern Mexico CHIAPAS, DECEMBER 5, 1994 Newly elected PRI governor Eduardo Robledo is struggling to establish his political legitimacy in the face of demands from the...
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...It was thanks to the presence of the armed forces...
...With about two million votes cast, a mere 28,000 votes separated the Colorados from the Frente Amplio...
...Box 21747, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...
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...Fax: (202) 328-3369...
...The fallout from Chamorro's dismissal has been extensive, with FSLN leader Bayardo Arce resigning as president of Barricada's board of directors, along with the entire editorial board and 20 of the newspaper's editors and journalists...
...U.S.-Cuba Medical Project, 1173-A Second Ave., Ste...
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...Michael McCaughan Army Joins Fight Against Drugs RIo DE JANEIRO, NOVEMBER 28, 1994 T he direct intervention of the Brazilian armed forces marked the beginning of a new, unprecedented phase in the war against drug trafficking and violence in Rio de Janeiro, especially in the city's impoverished favelas where the problem is most critical...
...Guatemala News and Information Bureau, P.O...
...Uruguayans, voting in their third national elections since the return to civilian rule in 1984, recognized the Left coalition party Frente Amplio (Broad Front) as a legitimate and viable political force...
...Aldo Horacio Gamboa Frente Amplio Makes Gains in Uruguay MONTEVIDEO, NOVEMBER 30, 1994 On November 27, the bipartisan system which has characterized Uruguay for over 165 years may have come to an end...
...Menem, however, rejected this view, saying that his relations with the military were excellent and that "there is absolute tranquility in the armed forces...
...International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Avenida Cesar Nicolas Penson 102-A, P.O...
...Dozens of municipalities have declared their autonomy since the January 1994 uprising...
...NotiSur is available as a closed Peacenet conference: carnet.ladb...
...government's attention back to ongoing human rights abuses by the Guatemalan army...
...Tel: (809) 685-2111...
...Box 077844, Bogota, Colombia...
...Fax: (202) 547-9382...
...Harbury ended her strike in order to file criminal charges against eight army officers implicated in BAmaca' s capture and torture...
...Fax: (212) 227-4859...
...Guatemala Bulletin...
...In Mexico City, indigenous legal representatives are demanding government recognition of the declarations of autonomy...
...NotiSur Cocaine Comes to Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast PUERTO CABEZAS, NICARAGUA, DEC., 1994 N icaragua' s Atlantic Coast has always been isolated and underdeveloped...
...Rumipamba 862 y Republica Apartado 17-07-9296, Quito, Ecuador...
...Nicaraguan newspapers estimate that as many as 7,000 AK-47s and scores of rocket launchers have been swapped for drugs and merchandise in the last three years...
...Human Rights Working Paper...
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...INSTRAWNews: Women and Development ECUADOR Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacin, Av...
...Haiti Info...
...The sudden burst of publicity around Harbury's case prompted the State Department to reveal that, according to information gathered by various U.S...
...officials have met with Harbury...
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...In a final statement published in Barricada, Chamorro referred to his firing as "an extreme dose of political intolerance...
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...E-mail: ghrc@igc.apc.org...
...Tel: (202) 332-7678...
...Tel: (809) 9272468...
...Guatemalan News Agency, Apartado Postal 74-206, Delegaci6n Iztapalapa, CP 09080 Mexico D.F., Mexico...
...According to human rights groups, some 200,000 Guatemalans-mostly poor and indigenous-have been murdered or disappeared in three decades of brutal counterinsurgency war...
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...Earlier this year, ex-Contras from the Miskito group Yatama gunned down three Colombians who had come ashore to the remote hamlet of Sandy Bay to sell cocaine at what villagers called "ridiculously low prices...
...The police in Puerto Cabezas have access to one helicopter for half a day a month...
...2, Zona Colonial, Apartado de Correos No...
...Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, 1500 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Ste...
...One rumor has it that the Colombians were killed because they were from the Medellin cartel and cutting in on a Cali franchise...
...The president-elect is former President Julio Sanguinetti, who presided over the nation's transition from military to civilian rule from 1984 to 1989...
...Even if it's beans and tortillas, right now everyone can eat," said the rightist president, warning that the country might not be able to accommodate its "distant brothers...
...The clash resulted in the death of one Xi' Nich member, and 20 disappearances...
...Tel: (57-1) 2455526...
...Box 20392, Park West Sta., New York, NY 10025 USA...
...It makes perfect sense," says Cunningham...
...The officials complaining most furiously about California racism are the same ones who are denying services to Salvadorans who have remained here...
...It is the first time that the Brazilian armed forces have left their barracks and taken positions in strategic points of the city to combat drug trafficking...
...National Coordinating Office on Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala, 59 E. Van Buren, Ste...
...InterPress Service Menem's Praise of Military Provokes Outcry BUENOS AIRES, NOVEMBER 11, 1994 In mid-October, President Carlos Menem endorsed the proposed promotion of two navy captains accused by human rights organizations of torturing prisoners in the "dirty war" during the military juntas of 1976-1983...
...Tel: (514) 521-0095...
...MADRE, 121 W. 27 St., Rm...
...GUATEMALA Guatemala Health Rights Support Project, 1747 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA...
...Henry Ruiz, Dora Maria Tellez, Luis Carri6n, and Mirna Cunningham-all members of the FSLN directorate-issued a joint statement claiming that party hardliners were using party resources to attack other Sandinistas...
...EL SALVADOR CISPES National Office, P.O...
...According to the Guatemalan Archbishop's Human Rights Office, abuses have actually increased since government and URNG negotiators signed a historic human rights accord in March...
...Tel: (617) 784-8067...
...Chiapas Bishop Samuel Rufz continues to explore options for peace...
...that we fought and triumphed in the dirty war which took our community to the brink of collapse," said Menem...
...The Cali cocaine cartel is quickly becoming the employer of last resort...
...In the absence of state authority, landowners and ranchers in Chiapas have taken the law into their own hands, dislodging indigenous peasants from occupied land...
...But one foreign business dealing in "nontraditional exports" is booming...
...Intercongregational Commission for Justice and Peace, A.A...
...Tel: (202) 265-0895...
...LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN RESOURCE GUIDE Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos, P.O...
...Backed by international human rights groups and influential supporters such as former President Jimmy Carter, Harbury is demanding that Bdmaca and other prisoners of war be given fair and legal treatment...
...Guatemalan President Ramiro De Le6n Carpio has formed a government commission to investigate Harbury's charges, but continues to insist that BAmaca is dead...
...Report on Guatemala...
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...The press coverage generated by Jennifer Harbury's search for her missing husband, a guerrilla commander with the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), has led to meetings between the Harvard-educated attorney and top U.S...
...Cuba Information Project, 198 Broadway, Ste...
...He recently launched the National Intermediation Commission (CONAI), composed of eight prominent, well-respected Mexicans...
...Cuba Update...
...Tel: (415) 255-7296...
...Haiti Reborn, c/o Quixote Center, P.O...
...Project Balam for the Defence of the Environment through Peace and Justice, c/o Guatemalan Community Network, 427 Bloor St., Toronto, ON M5S 1X7 Canada...
...They've been told to insert themselves into the world economy so they export cocaine to you in the United States...
...National Coalition for Haitian Refugees, 275 Seventh Ave., 25th floor, New York, NY 10001-6708 USA...
...The three parties are expected to be about evenly represented in the new Congress...
...Harbury went on a hunger strike in a last-ditch effort to demand the reappearance of Efrafn Bdmaca VelAsquez, who she-and now, the U.S...
...Haiti Support Group, Trinity Church, Hodford Rd., London NW11 8NG England...
...Fax: (212) 242-1937...
...Cuba Action...
...Christian Parenti is a freelance correspondent based in London...
...Tel: (212) 751-0672...
...INSEH News Briefs JAMAICA Friends for Jamaica, P.O...
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...Aldo Horacio Gamboa is a freelance correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro...
...Box 28594, Oakland, CA 94604 USA...
...Fax: (202) 265-7843...
...Box 8-6410, San Jos6 1000 Costa Rica...
...TELAR: A Guatemalan Women's Magazine/Una Revista de la Mujer Guatemalteca...
...Yet another exhumation in November failed to produce the rebel commander, and Harbury says the Guatemalan government is merely stalling...
...We've had ten years of war which tried to crush an alternative economic model and now no reconstruction program...
...Haiti Report...
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...Tel: (506) 552955...
...Tel: (212) 242-0559...
...Fax: (212) 3370028...
...Aimee Verdisco and Christine Ehrick are Fulbright scholars currently conducting research in Montevideo...
...Laura Proctor covers Guatemala for Pacifica Radio...
...Crispaz/Letter to the Churches...
...241, Washington, DC 20005 USA...
...Cuba Solidarity Campaign, 129 Seven Sisters Rd., London N7 7QT England...
...State Department-says was captured by the Guatemalan army in 1992...
...Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0510 VOL XXVIII, No 4 JAN/FEB 1995 41 "The battle she's fighting is part of the struggle of the Guatemalan people," says Miguel Morales of the Guatemalan Mutual Support Group for Families of the Disappeared (GAM...
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...Tel: (212) 246-3811...
...Salvadoran President Armando Calder6n Sol said that his country was unprepared for a massive deportation given the country's problems with employment, housing, health and education...
...Their few 75-horsepower speed boats are short on gas and no match for the Cali cartel's 250to 500-horsepower engines...
...Box 673, New York, NY 10035 USA...
...E-mail: usglep@igc.apc.org...
...Irene Paredes, Versalles 1103, Quito, Ecuador...
...Tel: (212) 6270444...
...apc.org...
...officials, and increased pressure on the army to clean up its act...
...Harbury's story has captured the imagination of many in the United States...
...Tel: (213) 937-3596...
...52332, Bogota, Colombia...
...Bulletin...
...Since 1988, the million or so Salvadorans living in the United States have sent an estimated $4.2 billion back to El Salvador...
...National Federation of Salvadoran Workers, 1300 Connecticut Ave., NW, Rm, 808, Washington, D.C...
...E-mail: gnib@igc.apc.org...
...The PEPCH collected almost 2,000 complaints of fraud in over half the state's polling booths...
...Tel: (202) 5296599...
...In one violent eviction, ranchers and armed police ejected 1,000 members of the Xi' Nich indigenous organization from a peaceful protest in the Palenque town square...
...12 de Octubre 622 y Patria, of...
...lawyer has succeeded in drawing the U.S...
...Sistren Theatre Collective, 20 Kensington Crescent, Kingston 5 Jamaica, West Indies...
...In a close three-way race, the Frente came in third...
...Tel: (718) 434-3940...
...The Colombians use the fish to launder their cash on the Colombian island of San Andrns, while the Nicaraguans resell the cocaine for transshipment north or for local consumption...
...Friends Peace Center, Apartado Postal 1507, San Jose 1000 Costa Rica...
...Poor Salvadorans," said Father Ibisate, "are rescuing the economic model created by the rich for the benefit of the rich...
...Cefemina: Centro Feminista de Informaci6n y Acci6n, Apartado 5355, San Jos6 1000 Costa Rica...
...The region's 18,000 demobilized Contras and Sandinista soldiers make a willing labor pool...
...Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, 3321 12 St., NE, Washington, DC 20017 USA...
...Asociaci6n de Desarrollo Integral de la Reserva Indigena Cocles/KkkbLdi, Apartado 170-2070, Sabanilla, Montes de Oca, San Jose, Costa Rica...
...Cristianos por la Paz en El Salvador, 1135 Mission Rd., San Antonio, TX 78210 USA...
...The army said he killed himself to avoid capture, but an escaped fellow rebel reported seeing him alive and brutally tortured five months after his disappearance...
...Tel: (44-71) 263-6452...
...Global Exchange, Cuba Project, 2017 Mission St., Ste...
...One week later, the president stunned many Argentines by praising the military's role during the 1970s and 1980s...
...The importance of these elections, however, is to be found in the unprecedented showing of the coalition of Communists, socialists, ex-Tupamaro guerrillas and other leftists...
...For subscription information: Latin American Data Base, Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131...
...Programa de Informaci6n para la Mujer, Apto...
...The most pressing issue is remittances...
...Some political analysts have suggested that Menem's praise of the armed forces was an effort to neutralize the growing discontent within the military over low salaries and the Senate's refusal to promote the two navy officers...
...The president said that his own imprisonment by those same military forces gave him "more authority than many to talk about this...
...The two were married in early 1992, but Bdmaca-also known as Comandante Everardo--disappeared in combat months later...
...Fax: (593-2) 549274...
...Report on Guatemala...
...Tel: (215) 241-7132...
...Instituto de Investigaciones Socioecon6micas de Honduras, Apartado Postal 20-057, Colonia San Angel, 01000 Mexico D.F., Mexico...
...Tel: (312) 262-6502...
...The military's participation was made possible by an agreement signed between President Itamar Franco, Justice Minister Alexandre Dupeyrat and Rio de Janeiro Governor Nilo Batista...
...Receiving 40% more votes than in 1989, the Frente maintained control of the city government in Montevideo and broadened its base in the traditionally more conservative interior...
...Using almost 2,000 men, armored cars, tanks, rapid deployment vehicles, and artillery helicopters, the army rapidly took control of the majority of the city'sfavelas and detained an undetermined number of suspects...
...Caribbean Newsletter Joint Trade Unions Research Development Centre, 1A Hope Blvd., Kingston 6, Jamaica, West Indies...
...Tel: (202) 223-6474...
...Tel: (212) 337-0005...
...Mirna Cunningham, a Miskito nurse recently elected to the national directorate of the Sandinista Front sees the drug trade as just the latest version of colonial dependence...
...Before the two officers testified before a special Senate commission during proceedings to consider their promotions, Menem urged the Congress "not to look back" at the bloody repression of the past, but to get on with healing wounds and unifying the country...
...316, 3era y 5ta Avenida, Miramar Playa, Havana 13 Cuba...
...Human rights organizations have strongly criticized the military operations, especially the detention of people for not carrying identity documents and the meticulous body searches of children...
...Cuademos de Nuestra America...
...Until now, they have played this role only in the border areas and the Amazon...
...COSTA RICA Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Calle 36, Avenidas 1 y 3, Casa No...
...In remote villages, people can't even report forced disappearances because of harassment by the PACs [paramilitary civil patrols], military-intelligence agents, or the army...
...Tel: 7-4954...
...Fax: (415) 255-7498...
...Fax: (506) 552-244...
...On Nicaragua's northeast coast, the free market means that cocaine is king...
...Vol XXVIII, No 4 JAN/FEB 19951 Vol XXVIII, No 4 JAN/FEB 1995 1NEWSBRIEFS Despite the commotion generated by the sight of large numbers of soldiers patrolling the streets and the extensive local media coverage, statistics of crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro are no worse than in other large Latin American cities...
...Cerigua Weekly Briefs...
...The Mexican military, meanwhile, maintains its tight net around EZLN positions, and Zapatista troops are on permanent alert, anticipating a sudden strike during the first months of newly inaugurated President Ernesto Zedillo's term...
...Fax: (202) 2657843...
...Washington Office on Haiti, 110 Maryland Ave., NE, Ste...
...What else are the thousands of demobilized troops to do...
...Such developments are closing the gap between open and clandestine organizing...
...HAITI Committee against Repression in Haiti, 1398 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA...
...Tel: (44-81) 201-9878...
...Tomis Borge, a staunch Ortega supporter, is to replace Arce as president of the board of directors and the editorial board...
...Box 3282, Los Angeles, CA 90078 USA...
...Villages have expelled local authorities and returned to decision-making through regular community assemblies...
...For months, Guatemalan activists have accused the international community-especially the United States-of downplaying continued rights abuses in favor of pushing through peace accords to end Guatemala's 34year civil war...
...MEXICO American Friends Service Committee, Mexico-U.S...
...Laura Proctor Proposition 187 Comes to El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, NOVEMBER 25, 1994 The possible deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Salvadorans from the United States has generated concern bordering on panic here...
...Box 5206, Hyattsville, MD 20782 USA...
...Haitian Information Bureau, c/o Lynx Air, Box 407139, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33340 USA...
...Medical Aid for El Salvador, P.O...
...Box 24, Chilmark, MA 02535 USA...
...The Guatemalan army denies it keeps prisoners of war, and insists that Bdmaca is dead...
...Aimee Verdisco and Christine Ehrick Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Army Abuses GUATEMALA CITY, NOVEMBER 28, 1994 A 32-day hunger strike by a U.S...
...El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, 129 Seven Sisters Rd., London N7 7QG England...
...Building Peace in Costa Rica...
...The Nicaraguan army has a minimal presence on the Atlantic Coast...
...Governor Batista was harshly criticized for not decreeing a state of defense, even though he reminded people that the measure allows the authorities to open up private correspondence, detain suspects without a court order, and tap telephone lines...
...B.C.R.C...
...Continued Unrest in Southern Mexico CHIAPAS, DECEMBER 5, 1994 Newly elected PRI governor Eduardo Robledo is struggling to establish his political legitimacy in the face of demands from the Chiapan Peoples Electoral Tribunal (PEPCH) that the August state election be annulled because of massive fraud...
...After killing the traffickers, the Miskito gunmen allegedly took and distributed much of the dealers' cocaine before calling in the police for a high-profile drug recovery...
...Defense Minister Gen...
...Tel: (5932) 242472...
...Hungry, demobilized Contras are also trading guns, left over from the war, for drugs and commodities like stereos and clothing...
...They have questioned the legality of her marriage and threatened to bar her from the country...
...Tel: 296-745...
...HONDURAS Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras, Plaza Los Dolores, Edificio 447, A. Postal 21477, Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., Honduras...
...Fax: (510) 835-0810...
...Trying to placate the opposition, Robledo promised to form a pluralistic government with non-party representatives who will "listen to the needs" of Chiapas and search for ways to reduce social inequities and defuse the armed conflict...
...800) 472-0888...
...Fax: (301) 6990042...
...Fax: (212) 752-1809...
...General Roberto Camara Senna, who was designated coordinator of the joint actions of the armed forces and the police, designed a long-term plan that foresees the "asphyxiation" of narcotrafficking groups -by preventing them from receiving drugs and arms-followed by the identification and detention of their leaders...
...The Colorados received 31.2% of the presidential vote, the conservative National Party (also known as the Blancos) 30.0%, and the Frente Amplio 29.8...
...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Coalition for the Abolition of Slavery in the Dominican Republic, 2000, Alexandre de Seve, Montreal, PQ H2L 2W4 Canada...
...Hebe Bonafini, the president of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the organization of families of the disappeared, warned that conditions in Argentina were ripe for the return of repression and violence...
...Fax: (202) 223-8221...
...Tel: (301) 699-0042...
...Tel: (212) 227-3422...
...119, P.O...
...Jesuits here have criticized Calder6n's "outbursts of solidarity," saying that beans and tortillas were becoming luxuries in El Salvador...
...Chamorro was replaced by Lumberto Campbell, a member of the FSLN directorate from Bluefields with no journalistic background...
...Fax: (809) 685-2117...
...Alertl...
...Border Program, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA...
...Tel: (202) 543-7095...
...NotiSur Ortega's Faction Takes Control of Sandinista Party MANAGUA, NOVEMBER 7, 1994 he slowly expanding split in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) widened abruptly on October 25 when the director of the FSLN-owned Barricada, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, was sacked from his post because of "differences" with the party leadership...
...Bonafini cited the recent appointment of Olimpo Garay as head of the prison system...
...Haiti Communications Project, 11 Inman St., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA...
...The agreement allowed the State to avoid decreeing a "state of defense," the first step along the path to a "state of siege" according to the Brazilian Constitution...
...Haitian News and Resource Service...
...No one should expect immediate results," Camara Senna warned upon assuming command of the operations...
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...232, New York, NY 10021 USA...
...U.S.-Guatemala Labor Education Project, c/o ACTWU-Chicago Joint Board, 333 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607 USA...
...But his victorious party, the centrist Colorados, received only a third of the popular vote...
...Center for Studies of the Americas, Calle 18 No...
...503, Casilla 17-12-877, Quito, Ecuador...
...InterPress Service is an international news service based in Italy...
...Christian Parenti Sources Michael McCaughan is a NACLA correspondent based in Chiapas...
...Fax: (416) 929-8601...
...This is a complex problem that will take time to be resolved...
...National Venceremos Brigade, P.O...
...Tel: (718) 434-8100...
...Mario Enrfquez and other officials have engaged in a series of nasty public attacks against Harbury...
...She met and fell in love with Bimaca, a leading Mayan URNG commander, in 1991...
...Divers and fishermen meet Colombian smugglers on the high seas to trade fish and rock lobster for cocaine...
...de Correos 70-26, Havana, Cuba...
...E-mail: nisgua@igc.apc.org...
...The commission is working to break the stalled dialogue and reopen a peaceful road to end the conflict-a prospect which seems unlikely in the immediate future...
...The success of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in winning political space and in consolidating their grip on the liberated zone-covering a fifth of the state-has inspired many in the state's nonaligned social movements to support the rebel demands...
...The Senate, however, turned down the officers' bid for promotion after the two men admitted that they knew prisoners had been tortured by the military to gain information, and that they had personally participated in torture sessions...
...Colombia Bulletin...
...Since September, the Independent Union of Agricultural Workers (CIOAC) has united 20,000 Tojolobal indigenous people in declaring self-rule...
...As Uruguay faces the challenges of regional economic integration, the nation must adapt to the realities of tripartisanism within the institutional limitations of a twoparty structure...
...Nicaragua's 500-mile coast is the perfect trampoline for drug traffickers wishing to divide, consolidate or reroute their cargo...
...Tel: (312) 360-1705...
...We have closed schools and clinics, and people have agreed not to pay taxes, water charges, electricity, or government credits," said Jos6 Antonio Hernandez, CIAOC regional chief...
...Fax: (506) 53-75-24...
...What little infrastructure there was before the Contra war is now in shambles...
...If this is happening with the husband of a foreigner, what's happening to Guatemalans in the rural interior of the country...
...One source within the Emiliano Zapata Peasant Organization (OCEZ) admitted that hundreds of the organization's members had defected to the rebels, and that the guerrilla were even training on OCEZ-occupied land...
...Garay, who headed the dreaded detention camps during the dirty war, was forced to resign his new post after the prisoners held a hunger strike to protest his appointment...
...Tel: (512) 534-6996...
...Fax: (202) 526-4611...
...21424, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...
...E-mail: wohaiti@igc.apc.org...
...Undocumented Salvadorans are doubly threatened, by the federal cutoff of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on January 1, and by the denial of basic public services to all undocumented aliens, approved by California voters in November as "Proposition 187...
...An exhumation in 1993 of BAmaca's supposed grave produced a man significantly shorter and younger than BAmaca...
...Instituto de Investigaci6n, Documentaci6n Derechos Humanos de la Republica Dominicana, C/Arzobispo Nouel No...
...Tel: (44-71) 272-4580...
...Fueling the tensions, the poet and former minister of culture, Ernesto Cardenal, resigned from the party, accusing Daniel Ortega of having "taken over the party" to further his own political interests...
...We should look at ourselves," said Father Javier Ibisate, a Jesuit priest and economist...
...Friends of Haiti, 1398 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA...
...Human rights groups reacted furiously to what they considered Menem's attempt to whitewash the military's bloody past...
...ALAI Servicio Informativo...
...Fax: (312) 262-6602...
...CUBA Center for Cuban Studies, 124 W. 23 St., New York, NY 10011 USA...
...agencies, Bimaca was captured in March, 1992 and seen alive as late as that July...
...E-mail: nyempower@igc...
...Latin American Association for Human Rights, Av...
...Over the past few years, under Chamorro's leadership, the Barricada editorial policy has gradually moved away from a strict party line, and has at times been openly critical of Ortega...
...Haiti News, 131 N. Main St., Sharon, MA 02067 USA...
...Radio Habana Cuba, Aptdo...
...Fax: (506) 34-68-75...
...The State Department has, however, rejected her calls for economic sanctions, despite increased defiance by the Guatemalan government...
...310, Washington, DC 20002 USA...
...The action was seen as the latest effort to marginalize FSLN social democrats from any positions of power...
...This year, remittances are expected to reach $1 billion, while export earnings from the sale of coffee will be only about $600 million...
...Tel: (506) 24-60-90...
...The centrist Sanguinetti is expected to soften, but not abandon the process of neoliberal reform set in motion by the outgoing National Party president, Luis Alberto Lacalle...
...Its dispatches can be read on-line in the Peacenet conferences: ips.espanol and ips.english...
...HAITI Insight A Bulletin on Refugee and Human Rights Affairs...
...Federation of Independent Associations and Unions of El Salvador, U.S...
...Union Nacional de Mujeres del Ecuador, c/o Dr...
...E-mail: hib@igc.apc.org...
...Several residents of Bimaca' s hometown have also reported seeing him alive in army custody after he disappeared...
...Several high-level U.S...
...Tel: (506) 2446-20...
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